[Xastir] Soundmodem on OSX

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:04:06AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> soundmodem uses the linux kernel; OS X runs the BSD kernel.  They have
> different sound system interfaces. This is why soundmodem doesn't work on OS
> X.

There is a FreeBSD port of soundmodem.  I have never tried it.
Perhaps it can be made to run (or ported cleanly) to OS X.  It is a complete
userland version, doesn't apparently depend on the linux kernel.

http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/soundmodem/

http://www.freshports.org/comms/soundmodem/

There are quite a number of FreeBSD-specific patches in the ports tree, so
it's not a "untar, configure, run" operation.   The patches may be viewed at 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/comms/soundmodem/
in the "files" directory.

Perhaps a savvy Mac OS X user can adapt this to that system.  I doubt it would
be a quicky, but it probably can be done since it is already done for FreeBSD
(on which OS X is at least partly based).

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